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-The Sudan is the largest African country with an area of 2,505,820 sq km.
-There are more than 550 ethnic groups and more than 100 languages spoken in the Sudan, and animism is widely practised still in the South.
-Land of the Sudan has hosted many explorers during their discoveries in Africa and especially in search of the true source of the river Nile.
-The Sudan has a history of more than 7000 years and it used to rule Egypt under the name of Nubian Kingdom. It was during that period that the pyramids in the North of Khartoum were built. | -Port Sudan is the city from where divers take boats to some of the most well preserved dive sites in the world. It is no wonder that a Frenchman Jacques Cousteau spent a lot of time in the sea just outside Port Sudan, where he built his underwater laboratories for doing research on sharks and corals.
-Nuba tribe became world widely known through the works of a German controversial photographer Leni Riefenstahl, who spent over a decade with them in the Nuba mountains in the 1960-70's learning their language and taking extraordinary photos of this tribe which is said to be the most beautiful African tribe.
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